Spark Broadband

Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications and digital services company providing fixed-line telephone services, mobile phone services, broadband, and digital technology services (including cloud, security, digital transformation, and managed services). Its customers range from consumers to small - medium business, government agencies and large enterprise clients.

It was formerly known as Telecom New Zealand until it was rebranded to Spark on 8 August 2014. It has operated as a publicly traded company since 1990. Spark's mobile network reaches 98% of New Zealand, with over 2.7 million mobile connections and 687,000 broadband connections.

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Compare Spark Broadband Plans

Reliability	6.3
Speed	6.0
Support	5.2
Features	5.9
Value	4.4

Average from 365 reviews

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2018-11-16 06:43:21

Jon Frere 7.2

I got a special 12 month deal for unlimited VDSL Naked Broadband for $54.99 per month with free lightbox and landline, and a $200 credit. That's why I gave 10/10 for value. But the price has gone up by $5 per month, my 12 months is coming to an end, and fibre is now available at my address, so I'm switching to another better value provider.

Pros

Great initial special offer, reliable service, speeds of ~27mbps down and ~2.5mbps up.

Cons

Too expensive now and there are better deals around. Speed issues when I first switched (not much better than ADSL, especially uploads) and customer support were not particularly helpful.

2018-11-14 22:22:18

John 7.0

We were with Spark for many years and they were sufficient for our needs, although we knew we would pay less elsewhere. Shifting to a new house was a good time to change so we looked around and found (through your website) a much better deal with a MyRepublic offer.

Pros

Good customer support. A company that has stood the test of time.

Cons

A real tendency to obscure actual prices of their service through bundling things like Lightbox into the deal. However, they do seem to be more transparent recently. For years Spark abused their market leader status, and ...read more

2018-11-14 09:31:44

Sonya 8.6

Good provider, excellent support

Pros

Great service, it was good value before they put there price up

Cons

VDSL Price

2018-11-14 06:03:25

Bruce Stansfield 1.0

A very bad experience

Pros

None

Cons

Excess latency, over priced, misleading, must speak Philipino, complete denial in the face of over whelming evidence to the contrary.

2018-11-13 16:10:40

Laurie Normanton 6.6

Too slow

Pros

Too slow

Cons

None

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Around 40,000 rural homes won’t have fast enough broadband to stream Rugby World Cup

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